It costs £80,000 a year to house UK's most DANGEROUS prisoners - same as a Hilton hotel

PRICEY: Holding a prisoner, like Zia Ul Haq, in Whitemoor cost over £219 a night

Holding an inmate at topsecurity Whitemoor jail is now £219 a night – the same as a Hilton hotel in London.

This is a rise of 3% on last year, when it cost £77,000 a year per convict at the prison.

The block holds some of the most brutal killers, rapists and terrorists in the UK.

They have included Nezar Hindawi, who was serving 45 years for trying to blow up an El Al airliner at Heathrow in 1986.

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JAIL: The outside of Full Sutton Prison

“The cost of holding the most dangerous prisoners is astronomical”

Glyn Travis - assistant secretary of the Prison Officers Association

Also there is Zia Ul Haq, inset, jailed for 18 years in 2007 for plotting to bomb the London Tube.

The cheapest Category A jail is Manchester, where it costs £45,219 annually.

Details were revealed in the National Offender Management Service’s annual report for 2016/17.

Sky-high costs at Whitemoor, in March, Cambs, largely refl ect a number of increased security measures.

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DANGEROUS: Jordanian Nezar Hindawi was jailed for 45 years in Britain

The annual price at HMP Bronzefield, in Ashford, Surrey, the only female Category A facility, is £64,188, or £176 per night.

Last year it was £64,833, or £177 per night. At Full Sutton, East Riding, Yorks, the total per inmate is £62,484 (£60,957 in 2015/16), at Frankland in Durham, £60,359 (£58,919), Long Lartin, in Wychavon, Worcs, £63,542 (£55,796) and Wakefield, in west Yorks, £46,796 (£46,216).

The cost of holding out-of-control youths is also highlighted. Feltham, in Middlesex, which cages 15-21 year olds, is priced at £74,165 (£73,058), the second highest annual total.

Murderers given whole life tariffs

The prisoners serving whole life tariffs in the UK.

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Montage of 55 of the whole life tariff prisoners who are currently being held in British prisons. Thomas Mair today joins the most notorious criminals who are destined to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

Glyn Travis, assistant secretary of the Prison Officers Association, said: “The cost of holding the most dangerous prisoners is astronomical.”

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “We are investing more money in the prison estate to ensure they are safer and more secure.

“This will allow us to transform our prisons and reduce the risk of offenders committing more crime when they are released.”